Business Control Partner, Director

Join us as a Business Controls Partner if you have a risk management or regulatory background and are seeking a new challenge. You will partner with the business and Risk function to identify, assess, and manage risks within the agreed risk appetite, utilizing our risk framework to inspire a team of business and customer control partners. Your role will involve ensuring that team objectives are achieved while honing your project management and people leadership skills in a fast-paced and diverse environment with a focus on career progression. This position is offered at the director level. You will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in fostering a culture of risk awareness and providing solutions to operational risk issues within the businesses. Your responsibilities will include enhancing ownership within the business, identifying areas of weakness, and sharing best practices. You will be expected to establish a robust risk governance framework aligned with the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework (EWRMF) and deliver relevant risk activities to develop credible plans for achieving and maintaining a control environment certification rating within the risk appetite. Your day-to-day tasks will involve escalating emerging risks promptly, ensuring timely definition and ownership of actions, promoting risk awareness across the business, contributing to the prioritization, design, and implementation of EWRMF principles, implementing a governance framework that engages stakeholders for effective decision-making, managing interactions between various functions, and ensuring compliance with policy frameworks and conduct risk requirements. To excel in this role, you should possess a strong understanding of operating processes, general and project management skills related to complex people, process, and technology issues, as well as a proven grasp of risk management principles. Additionally, you should have knowledge of regulatory requirements concerning financial crime, familiarity with Natwest Financial Crime Policy and Standards, experience with the Fin Crime Hub and associated businesses, awareness of EWRMF, proficiency in leveraging new technology and AI tools for efficiency, expertise in stakeholder engagement across different time zones, a history of successful project delivery, strong influencing and conflict resolution skills, and the ability to think creatively and identify alternatives in problem-solving scenarios.,